waiting for user input in separate thread

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Looks like there is no way to time user input. In the link that SmartElectron provided, the solution does not work since the timer is halted once the raw_input is requested.

Best solution so far is:

# Declare a mutable object so that it can be pass via reference
user_input = [None]

# spawn a new thread to wait for input 
def get_user_input(user_input_ref):
    user_input_ref[0] = raw_input("Give me some Information: ")

mythread = threading.Thread(target=get_user_input, args=(user_input,))
mythread.daemon = True
mythread.start()

for increment in range(1, 10):
    time.sleep(1)
    if user_input[0] is not None:
        break

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